wow, that's the fox report this sunday, january 15th. 2012. i'm harris falkner, stay right where you are, an encore of governor huckabee's two hour form forum with the candidates. have a great week. >> a huckabee special, forum two. south carolina, undecided. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applaus [applause] >> good evening, everyone, i'm mike huckabee coming to you from the beautiful theater at the college of charleston. the theater is filled with undecided voters from south carolina. now, the palmetto states primary are weeks away and polls showing a significant number of voters here in south carolina are undecided on which republican candidate

they're going to vote for. i want to say how grateful we are today to receive the hospitality of all the people of south carolina, and especially to people of this lovely city, charleston. if you've never been to charleston, it is one of the most beautiful, charming, historic and hospitable places you'll experience. we're here today largely because we needed an excuse because we needed to come to charleston and envoy this lovely city and beautiful campus. i want to introduce a special guest. honored to have the governor of south carolina, nicky haley with us, governor haley? welcome, thank you so much for being here today. [applaus [applause] >> well, you may know that since 1980, no g.o.p. nominee has been able to win without south carolina. how painfully i know that. but someone who comes on this

stage tonight is going to be the nominee for the republican party. and for many of us, we hope, the next president of the united states. the format is going to be unique, because what we're going to do is to let undecided voters ask questions. now, sometimes people say, why are there so many undecided voters and gives people some sense of pause and anxiety. let me assure you, it's not because these are not great candidates because i believe every last one of them are truly great candidates. have you ever been really hungry and you go to the grocery store and you walk through the aisles and because you're really hungry you're looking around and you can't decide what to get because it all looks good. to those pundits who think that the reason that people are undecided is because they don't find something they like, i suggest that it's because they find something they like in all of the candidates. tonight, we hope that maybe this'll be brought to to point of decision. each of the five candidates are going to appear

individually, they'll be answering questions and they're going to get exactly the same amount of time. each one of them will be given about 12 minutes. they'll have the opportunity to answer questions, now, candidates are going to be required to focus on the questions posed. they're not to mention and not to attack the other candidates. the order -- [applaus [applause]. >> mike: they like that in south carolina. the order in which you see them was determined by a drawing prior to the event. and enstead of journalists as i've said, questions come from undecided south carolina voters here in our audience and we hope that today's forum will help them make a decision. the questions being asked are from the audience members themselves. at the close each candidate is going to be given a minute for some summary remarks. texas ron paul declined our repeated invitation to join the forum, he's complaining in

nevada today. you can post your thoughts on facebook, and tweet us using the hash tag huck forum. and joining us to explain why south carolina is so important to the process, our special host, congressman scott. good to see you. [applause] >> tell us why south carolina is so important to the process? process? >> they love their congressmen here in charleston. congressman, tell us, tell us why south carolina is so important in this process? >> well, governor, in 2008 you were my nominee, by the way. i with a nt everybody to know that. south carolina is so important in this process because since 1980, we have not chosen the wrong candidate. we have 48% who are still willing to change their minds because we have very good candidates running this year

and we need to make sure we make the best choice because i believe america follows south carolina. >> mike: congressman tim scott. i'm honored to be in your district and delighted to be here, you'll be chairing with some of the folks that you'll see. the first candidate in today's forum is former massachusetts governor mitt romney. please welcome governor romney to the stage. [applause] good to be here, thank you. >> mike: thank you very much. >> thank you. >> mike: so let's go to congressman tim scott who is out in the audience and he has the first question of the day. >> gorp shall the first question from shannon shepard. >> welcome, governor romney to the great state of south carolina, i'm shana shepherd a housing industry executive for 30 years. and i lost that source of income due to the lack of funding for new home construction, and the lack of

the ability for consumers to get home loans without huge down payments. so my question to you today is what will you do to protect americans rights to own their own homes and to restore the housing industry that is so critical to our economy? >> well, thank you, and first, let me say how much i enjoy being in charleston. i'm sure glad that mike made this event here in charleston one of the most beautiful cities in the world. it's great to be with you today and your questions about housing is a question that people across the country are concerned about. and look and say can government do something to do to help. i want to make sure that government stops doing things that hurt. with the passage of new legislation that the dodd-frank legislation, all sorts of new regulations were put upon the banking industry and made it much more difficult for them to be able to make loans and make the kind of mortgage provisions that would make it easier for people to buy homes.

i also want to tell you, i'm not going back to the years of yesteryear where fannie mae and freddie mac were handing out mortgage guarantees to people who couldn't possibly pay them and low down payment in some cases no down payment and interest only mortgages that got us in trouble. we're going to have to get the housing market back going, doing the one thing that america cries for, get the economy going again. if we have jobs back in this country with 9.9% unemployment in south carolina, people here are suffering and can't buy homes. we've got to get back to you to work so they can afford homes and then our regulatory system to encourage our private sector, our banks, to start making loans again and providing mortgages, my view, i do not want to see us go back to the days of cheap mortgages guaranteed by government which gets prices completely out of line. i want to get the government out of the housing business and let the market work. [applause] >> thank you and go now to

the next question. >> and i have a follow-up. would you continue to support mortgage interest being a tax deduction? >> i do continue to support that, yes. i think at this stage for us to say we're going to eliminate the home mortgage interest deduction, you would have a very significant depressing effect on home prices, so, i continue to support that as a deduction. >> mike: thank you, shana for the question. state your name and present your question to governor romney. >> my name is don mcdunna and i have a question about separation of power. the president a wrestling with congress over recess appointments is nothing now, but in a him sense the combination of things like the dream act, expansion of regulatory power and epa and labor, and the new consumer financial protection regulatory agency, against the protest of congress, as well as the recess appointments,

while congress is not in recession, we can't wait, doesn't seem like granted in the constitution. my question, would you comment on your view of this and if you're elected president how would your administration behave differently? >> i think what you're seeing the president with extra constitutional action and taking his friends and putting them in positions of power and i perhaps the most egregious, the national labor relations board. basically paying back organized union, labor, by taking union people into the national labor relations board and do his bidding, his policy. the decision that they made, boeing they couldn't build a fanning tri in south carolina, it it pro worker, right to work state is simply wrong. if i'm president of the united states he'll make sure that nlrb and other institutions of that nature are not interfering with the will of the people.

one of the things the president had was great failure in his first term and by the way, his only term. [applaus [applause] >> he came into office with a democrat house and a democrat senate. it didn't think he need today work across the aisle to build relationships and trust and respect with republicans. and so, he pushed through his agenda without respect to the feelings of the american people and those that had been elected in the opposition party. so now that you have a republican house, he doesn't like it anymore, he doesn't want to have to work with both parties, he wants to jam through whatever he wants to do without the reference to the will of the american people and our party. if i'm president of the united states, i learned a lesson being in a state where there are few democrats. my legislature was 85% kkt. i learned i had to get along with the other guys and work with them. i will find common ground. i will follow the constitution and i'll respect the american people. thank you.

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(applaus (applause) >> welcome back to huckabee forum 2. south carolina undecided and we continue with governor mitt romney. let's go back to the audience

for the next question. your name please and your question for governor romney. >> governor, i'm a ron paul supporters and there are a lot of us this time in the political process. if you win the nomination, there's no guarantee you'll have our support in november, but you're going to need it in order to defeat barack obama. without the romney care and the tarp bailout and we have questions about your free market principle. how do you plan on getting on board with us and that you and president obama aren't different sides of the same coin. >> i hope you understand he and i would take america different place. my view, we have to have the strongest military in the world to protect us from the threats around the world. [applause] >> his view is that we should continue to cut the military and he's going to cut the spending by about a trillion dollars, and that would make america a far weaker nation militarily and he has a view to massively spend more than

we take in. like ron paul and i think everyone republican in this race, i want to cap spending and balance the budget. where we head is very different. and finally, let me note that i've spent my life in the private sector, 25 years in the business world. i understand how the economy works. i understand how jobs come and they go, and like ron paul i will do our vest best to keep our economy thriving and growing not by having the government leave and guide this economy, but instead by having three people and their dreams making america what it's been the hope of the earth. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. and next question for governor romney. >> governor romney, my name is richard, and the family practice physician for 38 years and medicare participant whose income is totally dependent on the present medicare reimbursement formula, i'm facing another threat, a reduction in this reimbursement of 27.4%, on

march the 1st. medicare participation is a reasonable choice, opting out. and other physicians have chosen that pathway or retirement. governor romney, what changes in medicare reimbursement formulas do you propose which would prevent physicians from opting out of medicare to ensure that they provide health care to seniors and military families. >> well, you understand that president obama and people of his party, have a very different view of health care than we have. their view is in order to try and hold on to the cost of health care, including medicare and medicaid, as well as the private said of health care, that government needs to put in place price control and cost control and tell doctors how much they can get reimbursed for their services, that's the course they've taken. it hasn't worked. we have the highest cost of health care in the world. my view we've got to get health care to act more like a market. so what i do, similar to what congressman paul ryan

described is ultimately reshape medicare not for current retirees, but retirees in the future, more like medicare advantage today where individuals are able to choose with a premium support payment either traditional medicare or private medicare plans. and they can make the choice between the two different plans and decide which is best for them. that, i believe is right to protect medicare for future generations and to allow doctors to compete with one another and hospitals to compete. i did the best way to keep quality up and cost down is to allow competition in a marketplace way, rather than have the government set the reimbursement rates and jam those upon you and other providers. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> our next question, if you would state your name and then your question for governor romney. >> my name is charlotte salmons, as a christian, i am deeply disturbed that there seems to be a growing anti-christian sentiment in this country. and the constitution says the government will make no restrictions regarding religion, and yet, there seems

to be more restrictions against religion, and this is against the constitution in my opinion. as president of the united states what do you do to protect the freedom of religion in this country. >> thank you, charlotte. the answer is at every turn and issue that would reach my desk i'll stand up to americans to worship god as they choose. i will not proceed down the path i think you're seeing down the country which is to secularize america. i think we ought to be able to have mangers scenes at christmas time and menorah as representing other faiths. we are a believing people. the declaration of independence established our rights saying they were created not by government, but the creator, we're endowed by our creator for certain inalienable rights and i'll fight to preserve america's religion. thank you. [applause] >> now our next question, if you will, state your name and your question, please. >> hi, governor romney.

my name is ann ford. can you convince me, as a true conservative, why we should vote for you, a moderate republican, against any of the other candidates? will you flip-flop if you're elected and break campaign promises like obama has. >> ann, let me tell you you have an opportunity to get to know me best looking at my record as governor. i served as governor for four years, not my whole life, obviously, but in that, in that responsibility, i had a number of issues that came to my desk and i think you'll find i served as a conservative governor. let me tell you what they were. we balanced the budget every year for four years, two billion dollar rainy day fund even though we started with 3 billion dollar budget gap. we cut taxes 19 times and i empowered our state police to enforce immigration law in our state. i fought for and successfully implemented english emission

in our schools and drove our schools to be number one in the nation. by the way, we talk about ut can, cap and balance the federal budget. i actually did cut the budget in massachusetts and the first year, didn't just slow down the rate of growth. i cut the spending in our state and by the way, the number of employees reported to government, the departments and agencies in massachusetts by the time i left office were fewer than by the time when i came into office. so, ann, i don't know whether in a minute i cannen could vince you, but i have a conservative record and i wrote a book called no apology. describing my view how to make america strong for the next generation, i love this country. i love america, and i'm convinced that the principles that i've described, the principles of conservative echl will keep america the shining city on the hill. >> mike: governor romney, you hit the market exactly. thank you very much, governor romney. we'll see you at the close of the hour and come back and give a minute summation.

remember, still ahead. rick perry, rick santorum, jon huntsman and newt gingrich. we'll be back from charleston. oye ♪ ♪ ♪

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beautiful city of charleston, south carolina to the huckabee forum 2. south carolina, undecided. our next presidential candidate, former utah governor jon huntsman, please welcome governor huntsman. >> thank you. >> mike: hello, jon. >> great to see you. thank you very much. and once again we're going to do what we did before. congressman scott who has our first question. >> hi there. in the first 30 days as president of the united states what could you do to have any positive impact on america and people like me that may vote for you? >> thank you for the question. and let me say first and foremost, it's a honor westbound with governor huckabee and the last time we were on stage together we were playing with a band reo speed

weighing gone. thank you for the question. the answer is i would lead. today we have no leadership, no one is doing what needs to be done on capitol hill and driving forward the work of the people. i understand there is a he a certain rhythm to politics and found this out when you're governor. if you don't strike right when you're put in office and well articulate your priorities two or three things you want to get done and sit down with your legislature or leaders of congress you're never going to get it done and i would be very clear on the three things that i want to get done. starting my first day in office. and that would be tax reform, why? because we're, we're driving a 1955 chevy trying to travelling on the super highway of the 21st century and wonder why we can't compete. and number two, cleaning up the regulatory mess that we find in this country that is inhibiting our creative class for doing what they do best and third would be taking steps towards energy

independence. crystal clear how i would articulate that. sit down with the members of congress and within 30 days we would have a road map laid out knowing full well that you can't get that done in the first year and a half in office, that door closes and you lose the will of the people. and that's a bad place to be. [applause]. >> mike: thank you very much. and state your name and your question, please. >> good evening, governor. this is calvin dale, three-part question for you, as so many americans out of work, would you continue to sanction almost a million people coming to this country and taking the high-tech jobs, high paying jobs? and what about our college children that are graduating without jobs? a and-- that's it. >> well, your first question was about brain power coming into this country, is that correct? >> yeah, it's people from

outside of this country coming in legally, and taking the high-tech jobs and best paying jobs that we have currently in the kucountry. >> let me say to that, we need to fix our immigration system, it is absolutely broken. [applause] number one, number one, we owe it to the people in this country in order to have intellectual honesty around immigration to secure the southern border and i look forward to working with the border governor to make sure we get that done. and while doing that, we have to remember we have a problem in the movement of people. for those coming into our country studying at our universities, i would like to incentivize to stay behind and use their brain power to help expand and develop our economic base to help create jobs, that's the way this economy has always benefitted and i would also say while we're at it, you know, this country has lost a huge amount of market share in the area of travel and tourism, i'd say

like right here in charleston, a very significant impact to this economy. gone from 17% of inbound travel and tourism to about 10% market share, do you know how many millions of dollars we've lost and how many jobs have been completely eradicated because our movement of people policies are completely broken. that sartarts with a leader who can fix the department of homeland security, which has become overly regulated and bureaucratic. >> you've got a couple of minutes before this segment. before we take a second segment. your question, please. >> you're adamantly pro-life however you place stipulations on cases of rape and incest and harm to the mother. if every life is created by god, how do you place stipulations on these lives and what would you do as president to protect them. >> i'm very clear on my pro-life philosophy, i have he

an always been pro-life and always will be, i have a daughter sitting in front of you, gracie may from china. she was born in a country where life isn't always valued. she was abandoned at two months of age in a vegetable market. we now have her in our family and i thank her mother every day. i have stipulations with rape and incest and health, life of the mother. that's the conclusion that i have drawn after having looked at it, investigated it and thought through it very, very carefully. that's where i am, where i always have been and i hope it's good enough for you. thank you. [applaus [applause]. >> mike: let's take one more question from this section and then take a break and comeback. your name and your question for governor huntsman. >> my name is jack frosty. the ultimate candidate for this most highest of offices could face the possibility of a billion dollars worth of dirty tricks.

do you anticipate in that respect, sir, the creation of an undercurrent of religious prejudice? if so, how do you plan on defending your faith and your belief? >> thank you, jack. i intend to defend who em, my faith, my beliefs and my family by being who i am. because in the end, the good voters and the good people of this country are going to come to know the nominee of the republican party in every way, shape and form and they're going to come to know the family of the nominee of this party. and all you can do is to be your best and when you are your best, when you radiate whatever values you have, the good people of this country are going to come to know you and they're going to come to appreciate that. whether it's 2 billion dollars, 5 billion dollars. it went penetrate the goodness i think that a leader can project when done right. thank you e thank you very much for your question. we're going to continue with governor huntsman right after

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charleston, south carolina. we're going to continue with governor jon huntsman and let's go back to the audience, state your name and your question. >> good afternoon, governor, i'm david tilley. the nation which put the man on the man is unable to put a man into space without buying a ride from russia. china has launched their own space station and announced their intention to go to the moon. what role do you see man's space flight playing in america's future and what would you do to expedite development of a new launch system. >> i have two boys beginning their journey in the united states navy. they were inspired by the early space stories they heard about and i believe two things for the space program. which we must afford. next it will give to the generation. the early moon landing generation and i was nine when that happened. and the next generation.

second, there's an economic benefit and technology that's arrived as we build and develop a successful space program. i will not subcontract our space program out to any other country. that just is not going to work. [applause] >> and i also want to make sure we have an economy that allows us to have at best space program we can bring together as a people. and it's huge economic developments as well. [applause]. >> next question? >> good afternoon, governor huntsman, i'm ryan smith. >> thanks, rhein. >> my question in 1979, the department of education had an a 14.5 billion dollar budget with staff at just under 100 people. today we have a 32 billion dollar budget and the u.s. department of education with staffed over 5100 people. and with that growth in

manpower and budget we have paid since then over 500 billion dollars in taxes and yet, the u.s. department of education has not proven to us they should be in the classrooms across america. my question is, where do you stand as the u.s. department of education being inside a classroom or should they step out and let the american people take care of the education? >> ryan, that's a pretty simple answer and it's so long to the department of education. [applaus [applause] >> now, here is why i say that. because our family has conducted the most extensive clinical trial i've seen in the area of education. we've raised seven kids, we've seen private, public, and home schooled, my daughter is a pianist. one, i can't find the value

added in the department of education. number two, we need the policy as close to the local decision makers as be po, family, parents, local elected officials don't want their schools to fail. [applause] >> and number three, we need to have more choice in the classroom. i led the choice movement when i was governor of the state of utah because every child enters a classroom with a different aptitude, temperament and approach to learning and i say a one size fits all model, it's never going to cut it in this country. finally -- [applause] >> finally, let me just say i think the most important thing i think we can do for learning, learning, regardless of your point of origin or socioeconomic background, we need to focus on early childhood development. because, if our young kids can nail those pillars of literacy around math and reading by age six or seven, you will have given those kids the greatest gift possible.

you will have given them the gift of literacy and they're going to go through their educational careers going a whole lot better as opposed to those who fall short. in which case you have remediation and kids falling through the crack and less productive work force, and those are my biases on education and i think they're derived from having been tested in an area of-- in a state that really gets focused on reality when it comes to education and what was best for our families and best for our kids. thank you, ryan. >> mike: thank you very much. we have less than 90 seconds remaining with governor huntsman, aen we go to the next question in the audience. >> governor huntsman, my name is kathy mcduffy, the question is about foreign aid. our state department is spending millions of dollars rebuilding or repairing mosques in egypt, cyprus and other countries, in cairo, 770 million dollars was spent on improving their sewer system while our infrastructure goes wanting for lack of funding.

we have a trade deficit with china over 600 billion dollars, yet, we gave that country 7 million dollars to fight air pollution. budget cuts do not seem to be nearly as deep for foreign programs as for our domestic ones. how would you -- [applause] >> would you, as president, strive to change this picture or would you defend these practices. >> mike: governor, we're short on time. >> a very simple answer on this. if our investment dollar doesn't have a return to the american people by way of expanding our economy, and creating jobs, i don't want anything to do with it. my -- [applause] >> my foreign policy, my foreign policy will be to get our house in order, do you understand what i'm saying because when we're broken at home, which we are, we can't project the values of liberty,

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(applaus (applause) >> from the beautiful city of

charleston, south carolina, this magnificent campus of the college of charleston, we welcome you back to huckabee forum 2, south carolina undecided. our next presidential candidate, former house speaker newt gingrich, please welcome speaker gingrich. [applaus [applause]. >> mike: hi, newt, great to see you. thanks for being here today. mr. speak are, i'm going to turn it over to congressman tim scott who is going to introduce our first question for the segment. >> first question meggy rosenburg. >> thank you, mr. speaker, on behalf of all of south carolina voters for travelling here to answer our questions, i'm currently six months pregnant with twins and have been recently laid off from my job in corporate america and we hear a lot about jobs and our unemployment is close to 10% in this state. what exactly is your plan to help create jobs on a national

scale that more specifically in light of our environment, here in south carolina, so i don't have to worry about my future and my family's future? >> well, first of all, congratulations on the twins i hope that turns out to be a wonderful, wonderful thing. [applause] >> at the national level, i worked with president reagan on a job creating program of lower taxes, less regulation, more american energy, we created about 16 million jobs in his two terms, as speaker, i worked with president bill clinton on exactly the same thing, lower taxes, less regulation more american energy and we created about 11 million jobs in four years. so, i would start with the newt.org, you'll see a list of tax cuts, regulatory cuts, changes, designed to create jobs, starting with the repeal of obama care and the repeal of dodd-frank which both are killing jobs. [applause]. but specifically here in south carolina, i with a want to say

three things. we should develop the gas off shore, you have 29 billion dollars plus of natural gas. those jobs in louisiana, $80,000 a year and create a tremendous industry. we should be taking part in royalties from developing off shore natural gas, finish out both in charleston and in georgetown modernizing harbors, the panama canal is going to be widened in 2014. [applause] >> we dramatically want to widen the harbor so that this is the modern port for export purposes even more than import. third, by using the right tax policies we want to rebuild manufacturing in south carolina. i want to be the president who was here with tim, watching the first container ship of south carolina manufactured goods going to china from the united states. [applaus [applause]. >> mike: thank you very much. let's go to our next question

in the audience, your name. >> mr. speaker, my name was ted mcknight. the founding fathers were oppose today a national bank, thus, no federal reserve. who do you think had the better grasp for the country, you or the founder fathers? >> since i'm a historian who has written a series of books about the founding fathers, i would think they have the better grasp consistently and that's why i would substantially reduce the power of the federal reserve. i would audit annually. i could call for bernanke to resign or ask that he be fired the first week i'm president. [applause] >> i would insist on releasing all of the decision memos of the last three years, so we, the american people, can understand how the money, our money, was distributed, and i deeply oppose the federal reserve propping up the euro and helping the germans try it sustain their

financial-- >> thank you very much. and our next question, please? >> mr. speaker, my name is dave. participants in the private economy understand that creative destruction is a fact of life. how do you defend the develop if ication of companies that are willing to put companies at risk. >> i don't, i've never done that. we're going to georgetown tomorrow. georgetown has a steel mill which was closed. capital wasn't put at risk, capital was drained out of that company. governor romney, ran saying he created 100,000 jobs in the private sector and let me just say. >> mr. speaker, we've said we will not allow comment on the other candidates. >> and answering his questions. let me say it differently. >> okay. >> i believe that it's fair to ask the records be clear and that people reveal what happened.

my total records clear i've helped found four small companies and in every case get exactly what you talk about. but i think to ask questions about a particular company is not the same as attacking capitalism. and i don't see how you can expect us to have a presidential campaign in which an entire sector is avoided and i guarantee you, if we republicans avoid it, our nominee in the fall is not going to find that obama avoids it at all so we've got to be prepared to answer every question and it's true of all of us, every single candidate has to be prepared to answer the questions before the nomination, so that we know that whoever we nominate is capable of surviving the fall campaign. [applause] >> all right. let's go quickly to our next question, your name please and your question for mr. speaker? >> hi, mr. speaker, i'm rebecca connolly and my question is, i voted for president obama for the first time as a lifetime republican, voted for a democratic

president. my question is, when the entire, well, appears the entire population of this country is sick of partisan gridlock, why would you use bipartisan cooperation as a weapon against your opponents when it seems counterproductive to making a real progress come across the aisle? [applause] >> well, actually what you just said. when i worked with president reagan, we had to get one third of the democrats in the house to vote for his program because tip o'neill was still speaker, so we developed a bipartisan approach to develop jobs and taxes and succeeded and got a third of the democrats. when i was speaker, we were faced with the fact that bill clinton was president. so, if i was going to get welfare reform signed into law, i had to find out a way to get bill clinton to sign if. i with as going to get the first tax cut in 16 years signed into law i had to find a way to get bill clinton to sign if.

if we were going to get four straight balanced budgets, i had to get a way for him to sign it. if you look at washington today you're not going to fix this country's problems just with speeches,you've got to find a way for the parties to get together, but it has to be principles. i worked to bring them together on our values and our terms of lower taxes, welfare reform and a balanced budget. i didn't move to the left to get their support. i got the country to move them to the right to get their support. [applause]. >> mike: thank you very much, i'm tempted to ask you voted for obama last time, how is it working out for you, but i won't do that. thank you, rebecca. and mr. speaker, we'll continue with you and the remainder of your time from charleston. we'll be right back. exium. possible side effects include exium. headache, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. other serious stomach conditions may still exist. talk to your doctor about nexium.

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(applause) >> we continue with former speaker newt gingrich and we're going right back to the audience and the next question. >> good evening, speaker gingrich. how do you plan to contest the class warfare attack of the obama campaign especially since a majority of the media is it supporting it. >> that's a great question. having worked with governor reagan since 1974 and then president reagan since 1981 is a big raigting. -- advantage. he was faced with the same challenge. and i want to pose the question. over here you have a policy with reagan and me created a problem. and over here the most successful food stamp president in american history. barack obama. if you like class warfare with food stamps you have a terrific candidate, but if you'd like americans to work, i don't believe in 99% or 1 3ers. i believe in 100% of americans

working together to create jobs, while (applause) >> every time the president starts down the class warfare road, oh, yeah, the business that cost us jobs and led people to be unemployed and put more americans on food stamps than any president in history. i'd rather follow the tradition of bringing all americans together to encourage entrepreneurship to get every american to pursue happiness by earning their own paycheck. that, i think, is the right answer on class warfare. [applause] >> thank you very much. our next question. >> hi, mr. speaker, my name is kimberly williams and of' been a federal employee over 20 years, not a popular job to have right now, but i want to thank you for coming and my question is this, there's been a lot of talk among all of the candidates about the increase in federal jobs with the obama administration and the average federal employee salary of $120,000 which by the way i do not make, nor does anybody he work with. and my question is, how are

you going to cut the federal deficit without cutting federal jobs. >> let me start by pointing out, to be fair to everybody, you know, we talk about federal employees. but we'd like to control the border. you talk about federal employees, but we're really proud young men and women in uniform serving this country and the people in our intelligence community and many state department people who risk their lives. so, i think we need to think a little about the customs agent who helps us down at the port make sure that the trade goes in and out of south carolina is a federal employee. the agricultural agent who helps bring new products and ideas to the farmer is a federal employee. intelligent conservative wants those and get rid of those who are wasteful or ideologically so far to the left or those that frankly want to dictate to the rest of us, i'd like to

replace the environmental protection agency with environmental solutions agency because the current epa i think is hopelessly committed to dictation and i would apply the concept of-- i believe we could have a dramatically more productive federal government, but good federal employees would like a chance to break out of the current rules and regulations and be productive and not trapped in bureaucracy. [applause]. >> mike: thank you very much, and let's go to our next question for the speaker. >> mr. gingrich, i'm chris mariana. my federal taxes increase in the beginning of the new year and my employer informed me that the beginning of 2013, my health care insurance premiums would increase, if you're elected president how fast will you be able to reverse these increases? >> well, this is a really good question, chris, because if i'm elected president and don't have a team in the house and senate, the answer is not. that's why the election this fall has to be a team

election. we have to try to win senate seats, we have to make sure we win house seats and work as a team. [applause] >> now, if we can run a team campaign and the american people come along and say, yes, we want to go in the direction of conservativism, lower government, lower taxes, more productivity, then i would ask the congress to stay in session on january 3rd and i would ask them to repeal obama care, repeal dodd-frank and repeal sarbanes oxley before i'm sworn in. [applause] >> hold them to that and i would like on the day i'm inaugurated to sign the repeal of all three, that would give you sort of a jump start and the same day i want to sign an executive order abolishing all of the white house czars as of that moment and gives us the right direction. >> mr. speaker only about 30 seconds left and ask you a

quick one to close out the segment. if there's anything about the election laws that you could change, if you had the power, universally to do it, what would it be. >> i would eliminate the current mickey mouse bureaucracy and limits and i would say anyone can give any amount of after tax income to the campaign if they report it every night, you get rid of the super pacs, get rid of the negativity and then the candidates would be in control and the candidates would be responsible, it would be a dramatically better system and more honorable system. >> mike: mr. speaker, thank you very much. great to have you here. >> my pleasure. [applause] >> we're going to see the speaker at the end with the closing remarks. ahead. rick santorum and rick perry. we'll be right back.